‘ with mainly dry day with spells of sunshine, lighter winds but still a fairly brisk breeze along the eastern coasts are taking back the temperatures here, 17—18dc. for most looking at high speed to 19 and 23 celsius. we will keep the sunshine for monday and tuesday, temperatures on the rise again, later in the week we could see a bit of rain. this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 8: the metropolitan police re—iterates that publishing leaked diplomatic telegrams could be a criminal offence. the warning follows the resignation of the british ambassador in washington. the police have been criticised for threatening prosecutions of the media over the leak. it cannot conceivably be right that newspapers or any other media organisation publishing such material should face prosecution. foreign secretaryjeremy hunt says he's told his iranian counterpart that the uk will assist with the release of an oil tanker, if tehran makes guarantees the cargo

is not bound for syria. facebook is reportedly fined a record £4 billion to settle an investigation into violations of its users‘ data privacy. hurricane barry has weakened to a tropical storm, as it makes landfall in louisiana. game, set and match... simona halep wins her first wimbledon title — beating serena williams in straight sets on centre court. and with just over a week to go until she departs downing street for the last time, theresa may speaks to the bbc‘s political editor, laura kuenssberg about her pride and disappointment inside number 10. that's in half an hour, here on bbc news.

good evening. borisjohnson and jeremy hunt have both defended the right ofjournalists to publish leaked government documents, after police warnings that it could be a criminal offence under the official secrets act. scotland yard is investigating the leak and publication of secret dispatches by sir kim darroch, britain's ambassador in washington, which were highly critical of the trump administration. sir kim subsequently resigned. here's our political correspondent, nick eardley. the leaking of kim darroch‘s e—mails about president trump has caused diplomatic chaos, political controversy, and led to the resignation of the ambassador. now, it has caused a furious row about press freedom and what papers should be able to publish. scotland yard has warned publishing further leaks could be a crime, last night urging that media to return any documents to the government.

for many that raised concerns, including the candidates to be the next prime minister. it cannot conceivably be right that newspapers or any other media organisation publishing such material should face prosecution. it is embarrassing, and it is the duty of media organisations to bring news and interesting facts into the public domain. jeremy had said journalists should judge if a leak is in the public interest. i think it is also very important to defend in a free society the right of the press to publish material that they think is in the public interest, leaks that they get obviously must not breach the official secrets act. scotland yard believes it does exactly that. in the statement they said...

that is a clarification after a barrage of criticism. but again there is a morning. —— again, there is a warning. journalists cannot use the defence of public interest because itjust does not apply to state secrets. prosecutors would still face a public interest test though if they wanted to mount a case in the first place. the decision to launch that initial enquiry into the leak has been welcomed by politicians. there was real anger here at westminster that sir kim darroch was forced to resign and relations with the united states were damaged by that leak but there is considerably more reluctance when it comes to the idea thatjournalists could be prosecuted. we have heard that from senior conservatives today. labour leaderjeremy corbett saying

also thatjournalists need to be protected when it comes to these sorts of stories. —— labour leaderjeremy corbyn. the question now is how and when that resolve may be tested. speculation there could be more leaks to come. and we'll find out how this story — and many others — are covered in tomorrow's front pages at 10:30pm and 11:30pm this evening in the papers. guests joining me tonight are nigel nelson, political editor of the sunday mirror and sunday people, and the political commentator, jo phillips. britain has offered to facilitate the release of an iranian oil tanker being held in gibraltar, if iran guarantees the ship will not go to syria. the grace one was seized last week by royal marines, on suspicion of violating sanctions against syria. it's led to a sharp rise in tensions. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, says he's had a "constructive" conversation with iran's foreign minister, who also wanted to resolve the issue.

a man has been stabbed to death in birmingham, in what police say, may have been a targeted attack. officers were called to the sparkhill area of the city last night. the man, who was in his 30s, was confirmed dead at the scene. the social media giant, facebook, is facing a record $5 billion fine — in a settlement with us regulators over breaches of its users privacy and data security. the personal information of millions of facebook users was gathered and passed on to another company, cambridge analytica, which then targeted users with political messages. 0ur techology correspondent, dave lee, reports from san francisco. facebook has become the largest player in social media. the network and data it holds on these users is now one of the world's most valuable commodities, but that failed to protect that information.

users' personal details including ages, marital status, even political leanings, were harvested. mark zuckerberg has apologised but now read are set to impose a massive $5 billion fine on that company. —— now, regulators are set to impose. five years ago around 300,000 facebook users took part in a personality quiz. it gathered information on them and their facebook friends. around 87 million people. it is claimed the data was used for political purposes including help elect donald trump to the white house. it is alleged the british political consultancy cambridge analytica bought the data and use it to identify potential supporters and send them political messages. facebook has consistently, aggressively violated privacy and in the us i believe it is a calibrated decision. i think the company has prioritise growth at any cost. facebook has said nothing about the huge penalty.

this record fine is unlikely... it is unlikely to satisfy washington. many democrats and some republicans have criticised the penalty of one of the world's richest companies as merely a slap on the wrist. tropical storm barry has made landfall in louisiana, lashing the us gulf coast with heavy rain and strong winds. barry had been been briefly listed as a category one hurricane before it hit the coast. tens of thousands of homes and businesses are without power in new orleans. 0ur correspondent sophie long is there, i spoke to her a little earlier. that tropical storm barry that has been slow moving and hovering off the louisiana coast for the past few days finally formed itself into a hurricane this morning and came ashore. it has since been downgraded again to a tropical storm, but nonetheless, terrifying

of course, those 70 mph winds for people living directly in its path. more than 60,000 people are already without power, flights have been cancelled, oil rigs have been evacuated. here in new orleans, wind speeds, although they bring with them their own life—threatening danger, are not the main cause of concern, what people are most concerned about here is the amount of rainfall that tropical storm barry will bring with it. some forecasters are predicting up to two feet of rain could fall in the next 48 hours, it will land on saturated ground. this street behind me was flooded only a few days ago with thunderstorms that were the prelude to the storm. the mississippi river, just a few hundred yards from where i am standing, that has been swollen at flood levels for many months now. add to that the increase in rainfall we are expecting, add to that the predicted storm surge that we are expecting to come up from the gulf of mexico, and some form of flooding here in new orleans seems almost inevitable. this is obviously a big task for that levy system.

since president trump declared this a national emergency, what sort of resources have been released to emergency responders? this was declared a national emergency some days ago by the governor of the state of louisiana. president trump has also said it is that. more federal funds will be released to emergency workers. at the moment, it is also being seen as a massive test of the flood defence system. people here are no strangers to hurricanes. no one here doesn't remember the catastrophic flooding that came in the aftermath of hurricane katrina in 2005, when more than 1800 people lost their lives, the lives of many others were devastated. the flood defence systems have been shored up and improved in the 1a years since. they have also spent millions on improving their drainage system. there will be a big test. there is some good news today, forecasters are saying the crest of the water level of the mississippi was expected

to get dangerously close to the 20 feet that the levy system can hold, that has now been downgraded to 17 feet, people are more confident and hopeful that the levy system will do what it is intended to do. but there will be some form of flash flooding as we have experienced in new orleans over the past few days, with the torrential rains we've had in the run—up. let's hear from someone living in new orleans and their experiences of the last 2a hours — denise hancock is a resident there and shejoins me on webcam. thank you so much for taking the time to speak to us. how are you feeling at the moment? i'm good. it has been a relatively quiet day here in the city. we understand that barry has now been downgraded. how do you understand this situation? 0ver do you understand this situation? over the last 2a hours, the danger to this city has been reduced, we

are currently only looking at getting a small amount of rain, so we are not really expecting any major floods, and they wind has only been a bit breezy, so i think our anxiety been a bit breezy, so i think our a nxiety levels been a bit breezy, so i think our anxiety levels are way down, we are not expecting a dramatic storm at this point. for many people watching what takes place during hurricane season what takes place during hurricane season around the coastal area, everybody thinks about katrina. this is something that residents are used to. just tell us what goes through your mind when it all starts up. what preparation do you put in place? there is a lot of preparation that goes on. the first thing is preparing your personal emergency kit, like you would for any kind of a disaster, so 3—5 days of water, first aid supplies, things for your pets, food, etc. and then if you are a homeowner, you want to protect your home, so you try to move everything out of the garden that could possibly become a projectile.

sometimes, we board up the windows, but this particular storm, we were not expecting high wind, so we didn't do that. a big concern for us is our vehicles, so we want to move oui’ is our vehicles, so we want to move our cars is our vehicles, so we want to move ourcars and is our vehicles, so we want to move our cars and trucks on to higher ground, because many of our streets to flood, and so losing cars and trucks can be a side effect as well. yes, you have a lot of low—lying areas around the region. did you actually consider evacuation?” areas around the region. did you actually consider evacuation? i did. if you had to talk to me on thursday, i was convinced that i was going to evacuate on thursday evening, but i kept watching the forecast and it seemed like the storm was moving more towards the west, and we had less risk for us in the city, so i decided to stay at home and shelter in place with my dog and cat. there have been lots of reports of residents saying, you know, we are tired of running. do

you understand that kind of thinking? of course. if you are going to leave town, it is a significant investment in money, time, you never know what the traffic is going to be like, and for many people, their employers require them to be at work and so, you have them to be at work and so, you have the possibility of, well i be in trouble with my employer for leaving town? and can i get back in time for work on monday? it is a significant hassle to evacuate, if you don't absolutely have to. had you been affected by the power outages? we know that some areas had lost their utility is. no, i haven't. none of my friends in the city have had any power outages, although i think there are some scattered neighbourhoods where there have been some tree branches that have been down, and certainly in the southern pa rt down, and certainly in the southern part of the state, more towards the gulf, there are power outages. but in new orleans, we are in pretty good shape. the levy system had been

upgraded after the tragic events of 2005, is a resident, how do you feel about those? are you confident in them that they would manage? there had been concerns that the sewage systems would not be able to cope with popping that water out. sure, the river levies, there had been in place for many decades of work very well, we have confidence in them. what worries us more is our own city infrastructure, some of our drainage ca nals infrastructure, some of our drainage canals in the city, and our pumps within the city don't work nearly as well. in my neighbourhood, we had some substantial street flooding just earlier this week, we got about six inches of rain over a couple of hours, and our streets are flooded and so, many of my neighbours had water in their homes or cars, just this week, with a small rain storm that dropped a heavy amount of rain. we have heard about the ground being saturated, and although it barry has

110w saturated, and although it barry has now been downgraded, it has switched tracks lightly, there is still that concern other a lot of water that is coming down. what are you now watching? really, just exactly that. so far, we have had very little rain today, mostly just some so far, we have had very little rain today, mostlyjust some light drizzle, but a heavy rain could definitely be a problem full stop for me, i'm prepared at this point, there is nothing more i could really do with the rising water levels, u nless do with the rising water levels, unless it got... my house is about 3.5feet off unless it got... my house is about 3.5 feet off the ground, so it would have to come up quite a lot to impact me in my home. but i suppose it could happen, we don't really expect it at this point, unless there is some, for example, if a barge broke through and actually hit a levy and caused damage. but bar something more human nature happen, i think we will be fine. that is good to hear. denise, thank you, do

stay safe, thank you. thank you for caring. financial pressures on private and independent day nurseries are creating a workforce crisis in england. that's according to the national day nurseries association, which says people are leaving forjobs in areas like retail where they can earn more. the association is calling on the government to provide more money to support free childcare places. our business correspondent, katy austin reports. get ready to catch it! this private day nursery in manchester wants as many of its staff as possible to be experienced and highly qualified. the manager, ann—marie, says finding and keeping those staff has recently got much harder. we havejust had two members of staff that went travelling. one of them went three years ago, another has gone recently. i asked them if they would like to come back and one said that she was going to work in a supermarket and the other one in a bar because it was more money. was that the only reason? yes, the only reason, as i could not better the wages they were on.

that's because most children here are eligible for government funded places. day nurseries have been warning for some time the government pays less than the market rate, causing a financial shortfall. now, there's a warning that it is increasingly affecting the type of staff they can afford to employ. what we have seen over the last three years is government funding staying completely stagnant, but at the same time they have got rising staff costs, rising business costs like business rates, and other things like pension contributions, all pushing their costs up, which leads much less money at the end of the day to cover staff wages. the department for education told us more children, including from low income families, are now benefiting from free childcare, and it is investing in training early years staff. but it is monitoring the sector closely, including workforce and costs. katie austen, bbc news. the headlines on bbc news:

the metropolitan police re—iterates that publishing leaked diplomatic telegrams could be a criminal offence. the warning follows the resignation of the british ambassador in washington. the police have been criticised for threatening prosecutions of the media over the leak. facebook is reportedly fined a record £4 billion to settle an investigation into violations of its users' data privacy. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's chetin patak. good evening. we will start with wimbledon. simona halep produced the performance of her career, as she beat serena williams to win her first wimbledon title. the talk before today's ladies‘ final was about whether serena would win a record equalling grand slam title. but she was sensationally beaten in under an hour, as andy swiss reports.

it was the day one wimbledon dream was realised whilst another was ruthlessly dashed. serena williams had emerged to royal approval in search of a record equalling 24th grand slam title but simona halep clearly hadn't read the script. halep won the first four games in 11 magical minutes. what a start. taking the first set in a blaze of brilliance. desperately, williams dug deep, at last some flickers of that familiar fire. they were soon snuffed out. in less than an hour, it was all over. simona halep is the wimbledon champion. cue delight and utter disbelief. halep had produced the performance of her life and her opponent knew it. she literally played out of her mind, congratulations simona.

it was my mum's dream. when i was ten she said if i want to do something in tennis i have to play the final of wimbledon so the day came. thanks to my parents. what drama the fans have seen. most were expecting to watch it serena williams make history. instead, they have a new champion. and as a fan of the duchess of cambridge, things got even better. really, well done. a quick chat before even more cheers. for simona halep, the perfect ending to a near—perfect performance. england have beaten scotland to make it two wins out of two at the netball world cup in liverpool. 36—year—old rachel dunn scored an impressive 49 points in a dominant 70—34 victory. they'll play samoa tomorrow as they try to top the group while scotland face uganda.

it was an enjoyable game, scotland came out strong and have improved massively over the last couple of yea rs, massively over the last couple of years, we've played with them in the super league, so years, we've played with them in the super league, so we years, we've played with them in the super league, so we knew would be a tough game. we are happy with the performance we did yesterday and we are looking to keep doing that throughout the tournament. northern ireland picked up their first win of the tournament earlier. after losing to the reigning champions australia yesterday, they got off the mark with a 67—50 victory over sri lanka this morning. lewis hamilton's missed out on pole position and will start behind his mercedez teammate valterri bottas at tomorrow's british grand prix. the finn beat the world champion to pole by the tiniest of margins in qualifying, as azi farni reports. all eyes are on lewis hamilton this weekend as he looks to become the most successful driver at the british grand prix. before that was the chance

to extend his record of six pole positions at silverstone and he started strongly with a new track record in the first qualifying session, breaking it in the third despite a mistake on his opening lap. but as so often this season, his team—mate, valterri bottas was hot on his wheels. hamilton bears the weight of british hopes but there is plenty of support for his compatriot. rookie, lando norris hasjust had his contract extended for next year and finished eighth while fellow british rookie george russell was 19th. having dominated in final practice, charles leclerc and sebastian vettel threatened to take the fight to mercedes but while charles leclerc came in 700ths off pace, vettel could only manage sixth. for mercedes it cannot become closer. hamilton gave everything he could on his final lap but fell just 6000th of a second short. valterri bottas taking it.

not good enough. we worked really hard but it got away from us a little bit. a sacrifice lap happened in q2 which would have helped get a reading of how the car was but we didn't do that. the second lap just wasn't that great so fair play to valterri, he did the job. it has been close all weekend today with lewis. i am happy to get a good lap. these grand slams will be in full voice tomorrow as fans hope to see a moment in history. a sell—out crowd of more than 140,000 is expected. the majority of them no doubt urging lewis hamilton on to what would be a record sixth british grand prix win. stage eight of the tour de france was another eventful one for defending champion geraint thomas. he managed to recoverfrom a crash with 15 kilometres of the race remaining to finish alongside most of his main rivals on the tour.

you can just about see it happening here in the aerial pictures. belgium's thomas de gendt won after a stage—long breakaway. thomas is fifth overall, one minute and 12 seconds behind the leaderjulian alaphilippe. in golf, it's just five days until the start of the open at portrush, and many of the players who will be looking to lift the claretjug are playing in the scottish 0pen. england's matt wallace carded nine birdies in his third round of 64 to move into contention. he's on 15 under par but is five shots off the leader, the austrian bernd wiesberger at the renaissance club. great britain have secured a silver in the diving at the world aquatic championships in china. jack lawer and dan goodfellow were first after four of their six dives in the three metre springboard syncro in gwangju but finished behind china. it's their first major honour together. chris mears, who won gold with lawer at the last olympics is taking a break from the sport.

that's all the sport for now. for more than 200 years, a lighthouse has stood at 0rford—ness on the coast of suffolk. but experts fear it won't be there for much longer. homemade defences to stop it from toppling into the sea have now been overwhelmed. volunteers are hoping to rebuild a smaller replica nearby — salvaging the famous lantern, as richard daniel reports. 0ver over the sentries, there have been at least 19 lighthouses on 0rford ness, this, the last. home—made sea defences have been overwhelmed. just part of my life had childhood, growing up in this area. mark is one of a band of volunteers who have had to accept time is running out. inside, 109 steps, trodden by countless lighthouse keepers, lead to the top. a spectacular view that soon will be lost.

unless we build something they'll probably never be another one, with technology as it moves on, but it is still used as a waypoint, people still look at it, even local fishermen when they are coming in, they know they are close to home. the erosion has been unforgiving. in 2005, the last lighthouse keeper paced the distance to the sea. the lighthouse trust now hopes to save what it can. this was built as an oil store to store the sperm whale oil which was used to light the lantern. you can smell the oil. absolutely, over 100 years old, electricity was used to light the lighthouse from the mid—19205, yet you can still smell it. so we have to continue that.

the trust wants many people as possible to visit the lighthouse before it becomes unsafe. you get an idea of how close the sea is. if you look, you can see the beachhead either way, in line with the doorway. it probably would have gone if not for these defences. yes, or lapping around the cellar. the lighthouse could fall into the sea — in truth, no one knows. but now the hard work begins to save the wonderful artefacts, the lantern and all the fixings, to recreate a smaller version on firmer ground inland. now, it's time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. hello, we have been chasing large amounts of cloud around today. plenty of sunshine, that was the case in guernsey. barely a cloud in the sky but for others, it has been more extensive. this was taken in suffolk.

for others, we have had heavy showers, particularly across eastern scotland and the pennines into the midlands. they are starting to lose their energy but a couple of drizzly showers may work their way. for most it is a trite night with clear skies across northern ireland, western scotland, wales and south—west england. temperatures between 11 and 13 celsius. it isn't it we have high pressure from the west. we have stronger winds today but they will lose their strength. a couple of showers, across the southern uplands and the pennines, maybe across the southern coast. for most, a dry day with large amount of cloud but we will see spells of sunshine, especially across northern ireland, feeling warmer. for most, fairly light winds fire from some eastern coast. a brisk breeze taking the edge

of highs of 18 or 19 celsius. typically, we are looking at 19—23 as a top temperature. some fine conditions for the final of the cricket world cup. it will feign and break, with spells of sunshine and temperatures at lord's getting up to 21 celsius. monday is a similar day with an area of high pressure. i suspect we will see hardly any showers at all. the best of the sunshine with cloud building, temperatures up a notch. 19—24 by the time we get to monday. through tuesday and wednesday we have an area of high pressure in charge but out in the atlantic, frontal systems working eastwards so by the time we get to thursday, most of us will be seeing some rain but for tuesday and wednesday, most stay mainly dry with good spells of sunshine and temperatures starting to rise but turning wetter